The poor girl is at her wits’ end. She feels as though she’s the one to blame for this whole horrific ordeal

A close friend

The 19-year-old was traumatised after the former Sheffield United striker was jailed over the attack, triggering an internet hate campaign by his supporters.

Her identity was leaked on Twitter and Facebook and she was accused of “crying rape” and “money grabbing”.

Now she has left her seaside home in Rhyl, North Wales – where Evans is a local hero – and gone to Ireland to escape her torment.

So far nine internet “trolls” have each been ordered in court to pay her £624 compensation for illegally naming her on websites.

One close friend said: “The poor girl is at her wits’ end. She feels as though she’s the one to blame for this whole horrific ordeal.

“Never in a million years did she believe that by reporting what happened to the police she would be driven out of her family home and into a different country. The abuse ranged from the vile to threats of death. It’s a disgrace.”

Former Manchester City and Norwich forward Evans, 23, was jailed in April for five years after Caernarfon Crown Court heard he lured the girl back to his hotel room in Rhyl after a boozy night out and attacked her.

She told jurors she had no recollection of the incident and the prosecution insisted she was too drunk to have consented to sex.

Last month Evans lost a High Court appeal against the rape conviction and was refused a bid to get his sentence reduced.

A month after he was jailed, League One side Sheffield United tore up the Welsh international’s £7,000-a-week contract.

The girl’s friend added: “To her it seemed the entire world knew who she was and was responsible for Ched Evans going to prison.

“She is the victim, yet she has been left to feel she was wrong to report what happened. Nobody who has been through that terrible experience deserves to be identified and humiliated in public. She has been driven out of the country in the hope of escaping all the flak.”